Overview
Salary: £37938 – £44711
Shift hours: 37
The Quality Monitoring Officer will take a key role in ensuring the effective coordination and monitoring of Coventry Alternative Provision (CAP) provision.
You will play a lead role in monitoring the quality of Alternative Provision in line with the CAP Quality Review process and ensuring compliance with contractual requirements. Ensuring that students are receiving personalised support and that their needs are being met when accessing education through Coventry Alternative Provision.
You will lead in the monitoring of all data systems to ensure they are effectively managed and accurate, ensuring compliance with attendance, safeguarding and progress of students.
You will be expected to act as a Designated Safeguarding Lead; developing and leading on the delivery of training sessions for professionals to ensure all Training Providers providing services for CAP are adhering to safeguarding policy and procedures, including KCSIE.
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
The successful candidate will have a strong background in education, quality assurance, or a related field together with a passion for improving outcomes for children and young people’s accessing Alternative Provision and will additionally have knowledge of:
- Understanding of Alternative Provision Guidance and school/local authority statutory duties.
- Awareness of statutory procedures around safeguarding, child protection and Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)
We continually aim to improve the education experiences of Coventry children and young people, and high quality Alternative Provision through the CAP Graduated Model of Support is one aspect of this. To achieve this Coventry City Council and the Coventry family of schools have together forged an education partnership that is based on principles of shared moral purpose and robust accountability.
The partnership’s primary aim is to improve the life chances of all children and young people within the city. Partnership success will evidence that all children, young people and adults have access to high quality education and learning, develop resilience, make positive life choices and contribute to a vibrant City of Coventry.
The Coventry Alternative Provision Quality Monitoring Officer will have key responsibility for evaluating and ensuring the effectiveness and quality of services together with educational programmes provided to child and young people accessing Alternative Provision settings.
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Guaranteed Interview Scheme – As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you’ll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled ‘Coventry City Council Application Process’. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.
Interview date(s): 2nd May 2025
Reference: coventrycc/TP/128707/10875
